{"id":9055,"date":"2020-03-28T13:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:00","slug":"prashant-kishor-attacks-centre-on-response-to-covid-19-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/prashant-kishor-attacks-centre-on-response-to-covid-19-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prashant Kishor attacks Centre on response to COVID-19 situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Saturday attacked the Centre on its strategies to fight the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in the country. He took to Twitter to criticise the Centre on several fronts.<br \/>\nHe said that the Centre should have responded better than just imposing a lockdown which he called &#8220;botched up&#8221;, and added that the Centre is unable to provide adequate health services.<br \/>\nA 21-day lockdown was imposed on March 24 midnight as a measure to check the spread of COVID-19 in the country.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9057\" src=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/pk-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/pk-tweet.jpg 809w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/pk-tweet-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/pk-tweet-768x1215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/pk-tweet-647x1024.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kishor alleged that in India &#8220;less than 10 per million&#8221; tests is being done and that COVID-19 &#8220;treatment and care facilities&#8221; are &#8220;non-existent&#8221; for people who need them.<br \/>\nHe ended his tweet with the hashtag &#8220;#IndiaDeservesBetter.&#8221;<br \/>\nEarlier this week, Kishor had said that the lockdown may bring &#8220;tough days ahead&#8221; and blamed it on Centre&#8217;s &#8220;shaky preparedness&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said that India deserves better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":9056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[246,32,35],"class_list":["post-9055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-coronavirus-in-india","tag-national-news","tag-prashant-kishor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}